Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-15

cation. We owe debt TO our manned
and crippled heroes who gave their
limbs in defence OF the State-which
We cannot repudiate without dishonor.
TnR PETERSBURG oRICLE.
Applause Where stand our adj
yersaries upon the debt question ? No
body knows and nobody will ever
krow until the oracle at Petersburg
shall speak. [Laughter.l Whether he
intends to abide by the Riddleberger
settlement, which his party adopted
and our party accepted, or whether he
intends to 90 back to his Mozart speech,
in which he undertook to demonstrate
that the State Justly owed 1872, ,977, ,902,
nobody is authorized to say.
RETURN OF MALONE TO POWER.
II we are beaten in this contest il
means nothing more or less than the
return of William Malone to power.
He will again control the Legislature
Of the State. He will again attempt to
get possession Of the Circuit Courts by
redistricting the judicial districts. He
will again attempt TO control all OF the
railroads in the State. He will again
attempt to take the Legitimate business
Of the people from their own hands by
lis commissioner Of sales bill.
MAHOEE's GAME.
He will again attempt to ruin the
tobacco interest Of this State by his
tobacco-inspection bill. He Will again
attempt to "gerrymander" the con-
gressional districts by giving two'repre-
ssntativcs to 127,000 Democrats and
eight representatives to $1,000 Republi-
cans. He will again attempt to bind
the members Of the Legislature by a
secret oath. lie will again fill all of
the Offices Of the State. He will again
attempt to seize all the public asylums
and institutions of learning 10 provide
places for bis hungry followers. He
will again attempt to seize upon the
public schools 10y vacating the Offices of
school trustees. He will again attempt
to remove ell the notaries public in their
State. He will again debauch the pub
lie morals Of the State. He will again
90 back to the Senate Of the United
States, there to misrepresent Virginia
for another term of six years. Can We
stand unmoved in the contemplation OF
such catastrophe? ?
LOOKING TO TIE FUTURE.
If we are beaten in the pending con-
test We will in all probability be beaten
in Virginia in the presidential cam
psign of 1888. There will 90 but two
great parties contending for the supre
macy in 1883 as in lS8l--thc national
Democratic party and the national Re-
publican party.
Mr.. GOode here proceeded at length
to contrast these two parties. After dis
cussing their distinc.i,e measures and
policies, he declared that the Demo
cratic party was represented in the
country at large by such noble patriot,
o. Grover Cleveland, Allen Ct. Thur.
man, Joseph f. Mcdonald, Samuel j.
Randall, John G.. Carlisle, William Il.
Morrison, and long line Of illustrioua
voIthieH
SAliTLE REPUBLICANS.
lie said the Republican party was
represented in the country at large by
the Shennans, Forakers, Fairchil1s,
and the Tuttles; that it was repre-
sented here at home by William Ma
hone, whose favorte candidate for the
presidency is John Sherman, a man
who has mistreated the South ever
since he was born; that it was also
represented here at home by Judge
Bond, who within the last few days at
your capital has usurped power which
does not belong to him, undertaken to
subjugate a sovereign State by nulliiy-
ing tine eleventh amendment to the
Constitution and by throwing her into
prison in the persons OF her highest
law officers, whose only offence is that
they have faithfully ooeyed the laws
which they aIe sworn to support.
CLEVELAND.
Mr.. Goode next proceeded to review
the prominent acts Of the Cleveland
administration-the land question, the
dependent pension bill, the restoration
Of the navy, the administration OF the
State department. and other measures.
He declared that Mr.. Cleveland had
done moro than oil of his predecessors
since the war to bring about a lasting
peace and to break down the barriers
between the two sections of the Union.
ROANOKE PLATFORM.
Mr.. Goode examined in detail the
different planks of the Roanoke plat
form and showed that the Democratic
party had always been the friend OF
the laborine man; that it was pledged
TO foster and encourage the agricultural
interests Of the State; that it favored
the immediate repeal OF the revenue
system as a relic OF the war, and tariff
for revenue sufficient To defray the eX-
peDscs of the Government economically
administered, but 50 adjusted in its
application as to prevent unequal bur
dcns, encourage home productions and
industries, develop our material re-
sources, and enforce just compensation
to labor without creating or fostering
mOnopOlics.
hAHONE's PAMPHLET.
In conclusion Mr.. Goode paid his
respects to the pamphlet recently
issued by General Malone, and ridi-
culed his professions and showed from
the Congressional Record numerous
instances in which Malone had mis-
represented the interests of the Virginia
people.
The speaker urged the people to DO
their whole duty in November, and
predicted a glorious triumph, and
closed in the midst OF great cheering.
MR.. WISE.
Hon George ID. Wise was next in
troduced. He began his speech by say
ing John Wise said at the last election
he had been cheated, but he would do
the cheating next time and | suppose
he is now about it, Malone, he
said, used "rats" in his printing
Office when he published his paper
in Richmond, and has never been the
friend of the workingmen, in public or
private life. Yet be asks for their sup
toIt. Mr.. Wise said he favored the
Blair bill, but that the Republican
party had defeated it. The Democrats
lave never been in entire charge Of the
since the war, and some
Of the measures most beneficial to the
South had been defeated by Repub-
lic0n Senate.